• He voted against requiring health care plans to cover birth control (3/22/03).•He voted against comprehensive, medically accurate sex education (7/25/06).• He voted against international family planning funding (3/14/96).• He voted against funding to prevent teen and unintended pregnancies (3/17/05).• He voted against public education for emergency contraception (3/17/05).• And he voted against restoring Medicaid funding that could be used for family planning for low-income women (3/17/05).

It's difficult to see what could be gained from denying people accurate sex education (STDs, unplanned pregnancies) and family planning funding (more children than people can financially support) but needless to say there's a very real risk that if McCain is elected president in November American women's reproductive options will shrink, possibly with tragic results.

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